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Friday, March 09, 2018
Registration for the 4th Farming by Satellite Prize was officially opened at the conference “Agriculture: a new frontier for the European space policy” in the European Parliament on March 6. The aim of the prize is to promote Europe’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Earth Observation (EO)…
Friday, March 02, 2018
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has published a 3rd call for proposals with a view to awarding grants to promote EGNOS operational implementation in aviation. The goal of this activity is wide-scale implementation of EGNOS-based operations throughout European airports and among European airspace users. This call is targeting…
Monday, February 26, 2018
Just when he thought bad weather was going to force him to turn his turboprop around and miss giving an important presentation, EGNOS saved the day. General Aviation pilot Julian Scarfe shares his experience of flying with EGNOS.  “I was recently invited by France’s Directorate General for…
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The World ATM Congress – a collaboration between the Civil Air Navigation Service Organisation (CANSO) and Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA)– is the annual meeting for Air Navigation Services Providers, (ANSPs), Air Traffic Management (ATM) experts, and leading product developers to discuss ATM's future head-on. This…
Thursday, February 08, 2018
The new guidelines aim to foster safer and more efficient maritime travel through the use of satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS).  Several years ago, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) became a member of the International Association of Maritime Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA). Since then, they…
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s in-house science service, have published a joint report containing a set of guidelines to facilitate the implementation of eCall testing in compliance with the EU Regulation 2017/79 by technical centres in charge of issuing the EC type-approval for…
Friday, October 06, 2017
We are pleased to announce a new article about European airlines adopting the usage of EGNOS published in the Airliner World magazine.European airlines grow appetite for EGNOSEuropean airlines are quickly upgrading their fleets to catch up with the rapid proliferation of the so called LPV approach procedures (Localizer Performance…
Thursday, October 05, 2017
A new version of the EGNOS Open Service Definition Document (SDD) has been released and is available here This new version contains the following updates:   • New commitment map increasing EGNOS Open Service coverage   • Update of information on EGNOS system   • Update of performance figures observed   • New Appendix…
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Galileo’s success will depend in a large part on its penetration of the LBS and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) markets. However, as the LBS market is already dominated by such heavy hitters as Google and Apple, the European GNSS industry is turning its focus to building a competitive M2M market founded on EU-based location enablers (i.e.,…
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
A new version of the “How to become compliant with EU requriements for LPV” document has been published in the Guidance Material page, please refer to the Aviation Guidance Material section. This document provides a set of simple guidelines for Aircraft Operators within the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) looking to comply with…